A Visit to Lane Field Park in San Diego
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Lane Field was the first home of the San Diego Padres, when they were in the Pacific Coast League, from 1936-1957. After spending years as a parking lot, the site where the ballpark once stood was turned intro a city park in 2015. The park is uniquely designed to promote the site's history as the former site of ballpark, with a marker for home plate and lit up base paths.
While the park is showing some wear and tear, it is a cool and unique place to visit in San Diego, especially if you are a baseball fan.
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Nicely done. Spent much time there as a boy of 12 (ish). Further east on Broadway, American Cleaners was a place where you might score some free tickets if you politely asked. They were located on the northwest corner of 10th and Broadway. Failing the freebies, we might hangout outside the stadium on the first base side, hoping for a foul ball. You could gain admission to the park with a returned foul ball. Great memories of this place and the original Padres. It has been quite a ride with the home team.
Thanks you for posting your story. You can say that again about being quite a ride with the Padres.
Great video! After the 1957 season, the Padres moved to Westgate Park, an 8,200-seat facility located in what is now the Fashion Valley Mall of Mission Valley. It would be great if you also did a video on Westgate Park, San Diego Steve!
There's nothing left of Westgate to show. The whole video would be me filming the PF Changs where home plate was!
@@SidetrackAdventures , LOL! I do enjoy PF Changs...
Ive lived here my
Whole life driven by this literally 100s of times and never knew this, insane ha
I remember watching a game with the team from Sacramento when I was 9 or 10 years old. I'll have to stop there next time I'm in town.
Like it Thank you. I was there today with friends and nobody can remember the name of the bar that was there for years. All the cops hung out there. Anyone out there know?
My mom who is 96 and I just watched the video. She remembers taking the streetcar at lunches from aGrand Rapids Dept store down Broadway to Harbor to eat lunch near Lane Field with her friend. Her father who owned one of the two first gas stations in National City , would go and attend ball games at Lane Field on the rare days he wasn’t working.
I read that the Padres once played at Lane Field, and the chargers for a few years used to play at San Diego High School (Balboa Stadium was much bigger than it is today). They along with the chargers moved to San Diego Stadium (Later known as Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium, and SDCCU Stadium, each at different times) in Mission Valley. The Padres would later move back downtown to Petco Park in the mid-2000s. The Chargers would later move to Carson, at Dignity Health Stadium (California State University Dominguez Hills), and later to Inglewood at Sofi Stadium.
I have happy memories of going to several Padres games at Lane Field as a little girl in the late 40’s, early 50’s. My father took my brother and me, and since my parents were divorced, it was one of the few occasions I shared with my Dad. I’ve always been a Padres fan since then, and I will be going to a game this summer when my son and grandson visit from Iowa. They are both Padres fans too! Thanks for the film and the info!
My Dad went to Lane Field to see a game. My first ball Westgate Park that replaced Lane field. It was Locayed where Fashion Valley is. I wish I had seen Lane Field. I been also been to Qualcomm Staduim and Petco for Padre games.
Excellent job on the history of this site. :)
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
Thanks for the video. Hope to visit one day soon. My great-grandfather, Charles "Spider" Baum, became president of the Padres in 1939 after his best friend in the world, Bill Lane, died. Lane's will appointed him as president of the ball club. "Spider" was a PCL Hall of Fame spitball pitcher, ranked second for victories with 267. "Spider" worked for Bill Lane beginning in the early 1920s in Salt Lake and followed the team to Hollywood and San Diego.
Thanks for sharing. I'm a huge baseball fan and love to read about PCL Padres history so I am definitely aware of your grandfather. 30 game winner in 1915 with the Seals too!
I thinking humans have seen the "home plate" marker !! Imagine that
I loved this! It's just a few blocks from where my daughter works - I'll have to make sure she and I go there to check it out.
Last time I was down there they had a bunch of food trucks setup, so depending on the day it seems like they have stuff going on there now too.
Hopefully they will do something similar for the Qualcomm Stadium site that has been torn down. One of the people from SDSU said that they will have a few elements from the old stadium incorporated into the new one (sort of easter eggs) but they aren't saying what yet. The new Aztecs stadium will be in the parking lot of the old stadium and they will have buildings where the new one is. So I hope they at least mark where the 50 yard line was or leave the field area open between the buildings. Maybe a "Jack Murphy Plaza" or something!
I know they saved the Jack Murphy statue and believe it will be at the new stadium too. Would love to see some sort of markings where the old field was.
Thanks for this!
Thank you for watching.
They should update the park dam
Hopefully they will. I know there has been talk of adding a Ted Williams statue.
@@SidetrackAdventures awesome they should update it and make it worth while to last a lifetime !
Very cool! I just read more about this field. I guess jackie robinson worked out on the field before joining the mlb. I love history... Wonder if anyone ever salvaged anything from the field?
The Hall of Champions used to have some of the wooden seats, but I'm not sure where they've gone now that the Hall of Champions is no more.